Architectural top vs honest height
111 West 57th Street is marketed at 435m. The highest floor a person can stand on - the highest occupied floor - is at 346m. The gap between those two numbers is 89.0m of structure that no occupant reaches.
That gap is the vanity height. As a percentage of architectural top, it is the Vanity Ratio: 20.5%.
In the Honest 100,111 West 57th Street ranks #62 by occupied height.
Vanity context
A Vanity Ratio of 20.5% places 111 West 57th Street in the significant vanity range. More than one in seven metres of this building's marketed height is structural decoration nobody stands on.
Comparable buildings
In context
Sources and methodology
Height data sourced from Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA). Vanity Ratio calculated as (Architectural Top - Highest Occupied Floor) / Architectural Top. See the full methodology.
Per-field source notes
- architectural_top_m
- Wikipedia - 435m to architectural crown
- roof_height_m
- Wikipedia - 346m to roof of occupied structure
- highest_occupied_floor_m
- Wikipedia - 84F at approximately 346m
- hat_factor_pct
- Calculated: (435-346)/435 = 20.5% - 89m of decorative spire above occupied floors